My Words - Hemingway To Gertrude Stein (+6)

Are those thoughts you put in

what I once valued more

 

Or would what I put out

be the end winning score

 

Did I need your ears

for my voice to become whole

 

Or would I rather them deafened

words deep in my soul

 

In my twenties your opinion

carried some weight

 

In my thirties I listened

but asked you to wait

 

In my forties I turned

and walked slowly away

 

Now alone in the twilight

—to carry the day

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

 

Fire & Rain

 

Shrinking immortality into

the moment

 

Ignoring the impostors

future and past

 

Inhaling eternity’s thunder

   with every breath

 

Breathing out

—fire and rain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

The Pathway Home

 

If you can take your own

breath away

 

   —and then the breath of others

 

You will live in a world of

magic and dreams

 

  —with the shortest pathway home

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

 

Everything But Love

 

Using words

only borrowed

—but not owned

 

Wearing clothes

stolen from a Mime

—not my own

 

I placed a token

metaphor

inside a pictureless frame

 

Giving you everything

but love

   —time and again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

 

 

To See, Hear, Feel, And Love

 

Do you need to open your eyes

   to see?

 

Do you need to have the words spoken

   to hear?

 

Do you need to pierce beneath the skin

   to feel?

 

Do you need to first understand

—to love?

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

 

Emptiness Sublime

 

Silence often defines the verse

its music between the notes

 

The freedom to breathe, the moment to grow

fertility bespoke

 

Space may be perfect with nothing penned

to fill or then divide

 

Quiet and silence never the same

—true emptiness sublime

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)  

 

 

Poetry Begins

 

Where science ends

   poetry begins

 

The wonder of it all

—questioned again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)